New week, new music. Ready for another melancholic music? Here’s Glasgow Mega-Snake by the Scottish rock bad, Mogwai. While it may initially sound like a generic rock music, the composition very quickly wades into an amazing mixture of sadness and rage. A fitting music to this unexpectedly excellent brown shooter, Spec Ops: The Line.
Spec Ops: The Line is most famous for its Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) inspired narrative: recon team Captain Martin Walker, Lieutenant Alphonse Adams, and Sergeant John Lugo receives a distress call from Colonel John Konrad, indicating that “evacuation of Dubai ended in complete failure.” Considering Dubai was struck by the worst dust storm 6 months prior, this worries Captain Walker, and decides with his 3-man team to investigate on the matter. Their mission? Find any survivors, then message the US army for a safe evacuation.
If by looking at the concept art below, you thought that Spec Ops: The Line is a generic third-person shooter, well, you’d be right. However, Spec Ops is more than that: it’s a devastating deconstruction of brown shooter themselves. Intentionally hypocritical, the game rewards the player for acts that progressively gets worse and worse. And considering the game is mostly linear, there’s little that the player can do, other than moan from something they have done. As each of the characters get more shaken and delusional, the game does an excellent job reminding us what Post-Traumatic Disorder feels like.
Spec Ops: The Line was released on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC in 2012.
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